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4 Reasons Your Strength And Conditioning Is Failing You

June 11, 2018
Brandon
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Are you currently committed to a strength and conditioning program to improve your fitness for life or sport?
Are you disappointed in the results that you’ve gotten from your strength and conditioning program up to this point?
Are you looking for a simple and practical strategy to get results from your strength and conditioning program?

There legitimate reasons as to why your not getting results from your strength and conditioning program. In my experience it’s not always about what all your strength and conditioning program involves you doing, but rather what you’re not doing with it that matters. Today I’m going to point out some simple reasons your program might be failing you so that you can make the necessary adjustments to start getting some real results.

Strength: Physical Amnesia, The Order Of Operations, & How Form Follows Function

April 21, 2016
Brandon
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When it comes to the strength and fitness world every coach and trainer has always had that all too familiar conversation with a student or trainee.

Trainee: What exercises should I do for abs?

Me: We’ll get to that..let’s see how well you can squat.

Trainee: How many reps should I do?

Me: Just start and focus on this technique and I’ll tell you when to stop.

Questions, questions, questions. What are we training for?

Elevating Strength: Fine Tuning Your Deadlift

January 28, 2016
Brandon
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The truth is that if you’re into building a respectable level of strength you just about can’t ignore the deadlift. The deadlift is versatile and can be executed in a number of different styles. Regardless of this when pulling the standard deadlift there are some simple tweaks we can make to our technique to significantly improve it and to achieve more lean muscle and total body strength from this powerful lift.

Pursuing Strength: Tenacity, Focus, & Specialization

December 10, 2015
Brandon
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So every morning I get up and I’m an absolute grizzly bear until I get my coffee. No, I’m not going to pretend to be the strength coach that says I hit the floor with both feet first thing ready to headbutt open the bathroom door and punch the front door open and march right on into work ready to kick ass and take names. That comes…just much later after the caffeine has kicked in.

It’s probably not consistent with what you might imagine, but there’s a building up to that sort of thing. If you also happen to be a slow starter as well then welcome to the club. Just know that even though you and I may be slow to start the important thing to remember is to be consistent and unrelenting! After all, the finish is what matters.

Sharpening Strength: Advancing Performance With Throws, Totes, And Runs

December 3, 2015
Brandon
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So you look at your training partner come Monday and the same old question comes up…“Are we training on the bench press today with barbells, or with dumbbells?” Now there’s certainly nothing wrong with this question, but if this the only question that ever comes up on your typical Monday training session then you need to start looking to make some upgrades. If it is then today you’re going to want to read this and expand the horizons on your iron game!